Hartnett accepts €22,000 damages over sex article

HOLLYWOOD actor Josh Hartnett accepted £20,000 (€22,482) libel damages yesterday over newspaper allegations that he indulged in “steamy shenanigans” with a mystery woman at a London hotel and that they were caught on CCTV.

Hartnett, 30, who is appearing in the West End in a production of Rain Man, is to donate the money to charities.

Mr Justice Eady, sitting at the High Court in London, was told that the action concerned an article published in the Daily Mirror on September 1 headlined: Josh Hartnett’s saucy CCTV romp.